Our Legal Psychology program began with a
traditional focus on issues surrounding jury decision-making, eyewitness
testimony, and interrogations.In recent
years, the focus of our program has shifted to become more offender
oriented.Although we still study
traditional issues surrounding Legal Psychology, our more recent emphasis has
been on assessing, managing, and rehabilitating offenders.Our program provides unique opportunities for
research and scholarship at the nexus between several sub-fields of psychology
(e.g., like clinical, developmental, and social/personality) and criminology,
corrections, and the law.

We welcome students and collaborators who are interested in
not only traditional areas of legal psychology scholarship (such as child
suggestibility and terrorist interrogation), but those who may be seeking emerging
research areas in the field, such as: mental health and the law, offender
rehabilitation, offender risk assessment, effective probation practices, criminal
identity, race/ethnicity issues in the law, white collar crime, and offender
personality.